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Universes in Universe Welten der Kunst | Worlds of Art | Mundos del Arte |
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The Museum as Medium Participants Francis Alÿs Schooled as an architect in his native Belgium and in Italy, Alÿs has lived and made art in Mexico City for the past fifteen years. His work has been extensively shown in Europe, the United States and Mexico. He has participated in various international biennials. Alÿs was recently shortlisted for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum's 2002 Hugo Boss Prize for contemporary art. Norton Batkin Norton Batkin is Director of the Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on -Hudson, New York. Marco Barrera Bassols Marco Barrera Bassols is the director of the Museum of Natural History of Mexico City. He has focused most of his career in exploring issues of display and interpretation in museums, both through curatorial work and written works. Barbara Bloom Barbara Bloom is an artist living and working in New York City. Her installations frequently investigate the collection and regard of art objects. Her Installation The reign of Narcissism was recently included in the Museum of Modern Art's survey exhibition, The Museum as Muse. Lynne Cooke Lynne Cooke is Curator at Dia Center for the Arts, New York, and a writer and lecturer on contemporary art. She has held numerous curatorial positions internationally, and has served as a lecturer in several educational institutions. Cook has also authored numerous exhibition catalogues and written for publications such as Artmonthly, Artscribe, Burlington Magazine, Parkett and other art journals. Abraham Cruzvillegas An artist living and working in Mexico City, Abraham Cruzvillegas has exhibited in several countries, including work for the Mexican/US InSite festival, and a number of Mexican, US and international galleries. He will be representing Mexico at the forthcoming Sao Paulo Biennal. He has presented many of his ephemeral projects through Kurimanzutto gallery. James Elkins James Elkins is Professor in the Art History, Theory, and Criticism faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has authored numerous books, including The Object Stares Back: On the Nature of Seeing and How To Use Your Eyes, and has published articles in many scholarly journals and anthologies. Michael Fehr Michael Fehr is the Director of the Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum in Hagen, Germany, a space dedicate to investigating the relationships between contemporary art and society/communities. Fehr has authored numerous articles and publications in both German and English concerning the role of museums in contemporary art. He has curated projects such as Tim Ulrich's "The First Living Work of Art" , a Wolfgang Stiller installation parodizing the museological process, and a scaled version of the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Germany. Andrea Fraser Andrea Fraser is an artist and writer who works independently and collaboratively on critical projects in exhibition and museum practices. In her work "Museum Highlights: A Gallery Talk" (1989), she invented a fictional alter ego as docent Jane Castelton, criticizing the museum's interpretive viewpoint. Her work has been featured in many exhibitions internationally. She is based in Brazil and New York. Pablo Helguera Senior Education Program Manager, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Originally from Mexico City, Helguera is an artist and educator whose work in both realms has focused on notions of context and display. He has exhibited his work internationally in Latin America, Europe, and throughout the United States. In a decade of museum work, he has organized or participated in more than 500 public programs, including conferences such as "Brazil: Cross-Cultural Terrains" at the Guggenheim and El Museo del Barrio in New York, and "Fiction Inside and Outside the Museum" at the Museo Carrillo Gil in Mexico. Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is a Mexican Artist who lives and works in Madrid and Montreal. His "Relational Architecture" series has challenged conceptions of public and private space, and of public artwork. Most recently, he installed Alzado Vectorial Elevation in Mexico City's Zocalo square, an internet controlled grid of searchlights which was installed for the fin-de-millennium. This work has received awards at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz and many other international festivals. Stephen Jay Gould (Keynote speaker, NY) Stephen Jay Gould is a leading American Natural Historian. He is the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Geology at Harvard and the Curator for Invertebrate Paleontology in Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology. His numerous books and publications have explored diverse conceptual frameworks, and have received widespread critical and popular acclaim. He recently authored Finders Keepers: Eight Collectors, a study of eight diverse collections, "exploring what collections say about collectors". Patricia Martín Patricia Martín is a curator living between Mexico City and New York. She is the chief curator of the Jumex Collection, one of the most important contemporary art collections in Latin America. She has curated the exhbiitions "Aprendiendo Menos" (Learning Less) with works by Gabriel Orozco, Fischli & Weiss and Richard Wentworth, and "6 young British Artists". Allan McCollum Born in California, Allan McCollum is an artist living and working in New York City. McCollum's work has been exhibited widely, both around the US and internationally. Much of McCollum's work investigates the production and situation of artwork in various systems, be they economic, technical or political. Antonio Muntadas Antonio Muntadas is a Spanish artist living and working in New York. For over twenty years, Muntadas has been making videos and multi-media installations that have addressed various social, political and communication issues, the relationship between public and private space within social frameworks, and investigations of channels of information. His work "Between the Frames", gathering interviews with various people involved with the art world, provided an important critical overview on the role of museums and collectors. Cornelia Parker Born in Cheshire, England, Parker has had numerous solo exhibitions, including shows at Chapter, Cardiff, England; The Serpentine, London; Eigen + Art, Leipzig, Germany; and Chisenhale Gallery, London. Parker was selected as a finalist in the Tate Gallery's Turner Prize in 1997. She has participated in many group shows, including Material Culture at the Hayward Gallery in London; and the 22nd International Biennial of Sao Paulo in Brazil. James Putnam (Keynote Speech mx) James Putnam is Curator of the Contemporary Arts and Cultures Program at the British Museum in London, where he has staged a series of exhibitions using the museum's collection to develop innovative projects with contemporary artists. He recently authored Art and Artifact: The Museum as Medium, a book exploring the fluctuating and ever-changing relationship between artists and museum spaces. Osvaldo Sánchez Osvaldo Sanchez is a Cuban critic and curator living in Mexico City. He has been director of the Rufino Tamayo Museum and the Carrillo Gil Museum. He has curated exhibitions both in Mexico and in the US, including the last edition of In-Site, a two city exhibition in Tijuana and San Diego. Santiago Sierra Santiago Sierra is a Spanish artist living in Mexico City. He has exhbited at the Havana Biennial, the Venice Biennial, and at PS1 in Queens. His work often pushes the acceptable boundaries of ethics and performance. His works often include the hiring of individuals to perform certain kinds of random activities - whether locking themselves in a room for an indeterminate amount of time, dying their hair, etc. Nancy Spector Curator of Contemporary Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Spector has organized several exhibitions at the Guggenheim including exhibitions by artists Rebecca Horn, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Robert Rauschenberg, Andreas Slominski and Hiroshi Sugimoto. She is the editor of "Guggenheim A to Z", the Guggenheim's main guide to its collection, and is contributor to many magazines and publications. Gregory Volk Gregory Volk is a New York based art critic and curator, who contributes regularly to Art in America and other publications. Volk has also curated a number of exhibitions both in the US and abroad. He contributed to the catalogue of Mark Dion's exhibition "River Thames Dig", a project by the Tate Modern. Fred Wilson Early in his career Wilson worked as an educator in New York City museums, where he became interested in the philosophy and intention behind a museum's mission. By the late 1980s he was using his insider knowledge to create a series of installations about museum practices, exploring how and why objects are selected for display or placed in storage and what those choices tell the public about an institution's priorities. Drawing on his understanding of cultural history and his personal experiences as an African American of mixed ancestry, Wilson's work challenges its audiences' experience of museums, thus exposing the institutional biases and prejudices existing in and around these spaces. Julian Zugazagoitia Executive Assistant to the Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. He is the co-curator of the exhibition "Brazil Body and Soul" at the Guggenheim and contributor to many magazines and publications. |
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